Jeff Bezos: Leadership Qualities and Lessons

Personal and
Professional
Development
JEFF BEZOS

Introduction
– Personal and professional development can be referred to as a prolonged procedure
whereby individuals leverage their skills, knowledge base and competency to attain
the goals and objectives set by them in personal and corporate settings.
– The presentation is based upon Jeff Bezos who is the CEO of Amazon, an e-
commerce company dealing in wide variety of products.
– The presentation throws light upon his leadership qualities, style and lessons gained
from his perception of leadership as a whole.

Literature on Leadership
– The wide literature upon leadership presents that it is an ability of an individual
named leader to influence the behaviour exhibited by the subordinates.
– The influence in most of the cases is placed in a manner which results in boosting
the morale of employees and enhancing their productivity levels until the leader
is recognised to be abusing their power.
– A leader has the option of adopting a leadership style which is aligned with the
present situation and requirements of the company.

Overview of the Company - Amazon
Amazon is acknowledged to be a multinational
conglomerate technological company based in the
confines of Seattle, America. This entity is engaged
in a number of products and services inclusive of e-
commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and
artificial intelligence. This company is regarded as
one of the Big 4 firms together with other top notch
firms like Apple, Google and Microsoft.